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Enlightened Journey

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Enlightened Journey is a quest in which you help the Entrana monk Auguste set up a hot air balloon transportation system.

2.1 Starting out
2.2 Test balloons
2.3 Main balloon
2.5.1 Balloon control panel
2.6.1 Taverley screen 1
2.6.2 Taverley screen 2
2.6.3 Taverley screen 3
4 Required for completing

Details [ ]

Walkthrough [ ], starting out [ ].

Balloon design

It is recommended to read ahead and bring the appropriate items to minimise the number of bank runs. The best strategy is to take all items except for the willow branches , tinderbox , and logs with you when you initially go to the island - then, bank once to get the branches, tinderbox, and logs.

To start the quest, travel to Entrana and speak to Auguste , who is on the west side of the island, just north of the Herblore shop . Remember that weapons / armour are not allowed on the island.

Test balloons [ ]

Auguste wants to make two test balloons and asks the player to get him the following items:

3 papyrus - can be bought from the Tai Bwo Wannai or Shilo Village shops on Karamja , bought from the general store in Ardougne , bought from Ali Morrisane , or taken from respawns at the Legends' Guild and Yanille .
A candle - buy from the candle seller in Tai Bwo Wannai, Shilo Village, or Catherby , or steal one from a table in Entrana's church, taking a maximum of 2 damage if unsuccessful.
A ball of wool - spin from wool sheared from a sheep , or buy from Ardougne shop or the Lletya seamstress.
A sack of potatoes - potatoes can be grown , bought in the shops on Miscellania and Etceteria , or gathered from Lumbridge , southwest of the mill. Sacks are available from any Farming shop . Click the sack with 10 potatoes in your inventory to fill up the sack.

An angry mob destroys the balloon.

Once you have the items, Auguste tells you to make a model of an origami balloon. Use papyrus with the ball of wool, creating a balloon structure, and then use an unlit candle on the balloon structure to get an origami balloon. Do not light the balloon or else you will have to get the items again!

Talk to Auguste to see a short cutscene of the balloon launch. After that, talk to him again, and he will take the remaining two pieces of papyrus and the sack of potatoes from you. In a second cutscene, the player launches the next balloon, which is attacked by an angry mob of peasants.

Main balloon [ ]

Next, Auguste asks the player to get the materials for a real balloon:

Yellow dye - can be obtained by giving Aggie in Draynor Village two onions and 5 coins or can be bought from Lletya seamstress shop.
Red dye - can be obtained by giving Aggie three redberries and 5 coins or can be bought from Lletya seamstress shop.
10 Silk - can be bought from the silk merchant in Al Kharid at 2-3 coins each, or stolen from the stalls in Ardougne .
A bowl - can be bought at any general store or made in Barbarian Village from soft clay . There also exists a bowl upstairs in the building directly east of Auguste.
8 sandbags - Use an empty sack with a sandpit (use the one just south of Auguste) to get a sandbag.

You can skip the following paragraph if you already have willow branches in your bank. After you bring these items (21 in total) to Auguste, he will need to you attach willow branches to the platform. Auguste will give the player a basket of apples and an " Auguste's sapling ", which is actually a willow sapling . Plant the sapling in any tree patch and ask the local farmer to look after the growing tree by paying with a basket of apples . Once it is fully grown, cut 12 willow branches from it by using secateurs to the tree. To save time, you can buy the willow branches from the Grand Exchange .

Give the dyes, pieces of silk, bowl, and sandbags to Auguste in the same trip. Teleport to a bank and take out the 12 willow branches, 10 normal logs, and tinderbox. Head back to Auguste and use the 12 willow branches on the frame of the balloon to weave a basket.

Ten normal logs (other log types will not work ) and a tinderbox are needed for completing the journey. Because axes can be wielded as a weapon, they are not allowed on Entrana . Logs should be prepared before going to Entrana.

Ballooning [ ]

The ballooning interface.

After giving the materials to Auguste , weaving the basket and having the logs and tinderbox in the inventory , speak to Auguste to get ready to fly. He'll describe some of what the player should notice and some tips on how to fly the balloon.

An interface to control the balloon will appear. Manoeuvre through the obstacle course without hitting anything (including birds, trees, houses and clouds) and safely land on the well marked landing spot on the third screen.

Balloon control panel [ ]

Balloon controls panel

Clicking any control advances the balloon one "space" to the right.

The top button (drop sandbag) moves the balloon two spaces up ( UP 2 ).
The next button (use log) moves the balloon one space up ( UP 1 ).
"Relax" advances the balloon to the right without changing altitude ( RIGHT ).
The normal rope lowers the balloon by one space ( DOWN 1 ),
The red rope lowers the balloon by two spaces ( DOWN 2 ).
Clicking "Bail" will cancel the flight.

The numbers at the side of sack and log buttons correspond to how many times player can use the resources respectively; therefore, fuel is limited. If the player runs out of fuel, they can still "relax" or lower altitude (by pulling ropes).

A tip is that how the balloon appears to travel is not as important as where it will end up. If the balloon meets a cloud right above it and a bird in front of it, it is possible to go right through both obstacles by dropping sacks or pulling the red rope (raising and dropping the balloon by 2 spaces respectively). The balloon will fly high or low enough to avoid the bird, and will advance one space forward to avoid the cloud. It might not seem like the balloon can fit through, but it can .

Flying to Taverley [ ]

When ready to fly, three screens showing the path to Taverley will appear in the ballooning interface. Go here for more pictures.

The balloon should end up one space above the landing pad, with no air space in between . Flying past the landing pad would get the balloon blown away, and getting the balloon in the space with landing pad would cause it to smash to the ground—in both cases, the flight would be considered unsuccessful. The player needs to restart the flight by preparing the logs and tinderbox again before going to Entrana , although they don't have to rebuild the balloon.

There are various ways to control the balloon, and the following is just one of the suggested paths:

Taverley screen 1 [ ]

Taverley screen 2 [ ]

Taverley screen 3 [ ]

After the balloon has landed, talk to Auguste for a little dialogue - then, the quest is finished.

Rewards [ ]

Gnome goggles from the Gnome Restaurant minigame can be combined with the bomber cap by talking with Auguste
Access to the balloon transport system
Ability to make origami balloons

Required for completing [ ]

Completion of Enlightened Journey is required for the following:

Monkey Madness II (also requires the Grand Tree destination for the balloon transport system )
Ardougne Achievement Diary (Medium)
Varrock Achievement Diary (Medium)

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Quick Guide • Balloon transport system • Transcript

Old School RuneScape
1 Experience
2 Mage armor
3 Armour/Melee armour

Enlightened Journey OSRS Guide

Quest requirements, quest recommendations, getting to entrana, a monk who wants to fly, a little more enlightened, quest rewards, balloon transport system, question: is there any point in making origami balloons, question: is completion of enlightened journey a prerequisite for any quest, question: does the bomber outfit do anything special.

In the quest called life, people seek out many things. Some desire fame and fortune, and some desire peace and happiness. Others desire a lifetime supply of spicy tuna rolls. I’m others.

Another common goal in life that people hold is attaining enlightenment. Enlightenment means a great many things depending on who you ask. But whatever enlightenment means to you, monks are a pretty decent starting point if enlightenment is what you seek.

The island of Entrana has a lot of monks. It’s the perfect place to start a holy journey. One monk, Auguste, seems more ahead of the curve than the rest of his brothers. It sounds like he’s a good starting point for anyone seeking enlightenment.

Auguste’s enlightenment may not be what you had in mind, but there’s only one way to find out. It’s time for an Enlightened Journey.

Enlightened Journey requires a little bit of account investment before you can begin. You’ll need level 20 Firemaking , 30 Farming , and 36 Crafting . You also need at least 20 Quest Points.

Quests like Romeo & Juliet , Goblin Diplomacy, Merlin’s Crystal, Sheep Herder, and Druidic Ritual are quick and easy quests that give a lot of Quest Points.

As for items, you’ll need a laundry list of goods. These are:

ball of wool
8 empty sacks
sack of potatoes (Obtainable on Entrana)
10 pieces of silk
10 normal logs (Minimum)
1 unlit candle (Obtainable on Entrana)
12 willow branches

Even if you’re an Iron Man, none of these items are hard to get. For candles, you can steal them from Entrana’s church with level 20 Thieving.

You can also purchase a candle for 1,000 GP from the candle seller outside the Lumbridge Swamp Caves. You can easily acquire papyrus from Ali’s Discount Wares in Al-Kharid. Both dyes are obtainable from Aggie in Draynor Village.

My main recommendation for Enlightened Journey is to pay attention. Enlightened Journey’s length depends on how many trips you make back and forth. The number of trips you make depends on whether you bring the correct items on each trip. Don’t make this any longer than it has to be.

I also recommend having a way to get to Port Sarim quickly. An amulet of glory or Explorer’s Ring 2, 3, or 4 will do just nicely. You can wear weight-reduction clothing too.

Speak to monks at Port Sarim to get to Entrana.

To begin the Enlightened Journey, make your way to the Port Sarim docks. Speak with one of the monks there, and they can take you to Entrana.

Entrana is a pacifist island, so there are restrictions on what items you can bring. Weapons, armor, and capes with any attack or defense bonuses are out. There are other miscellaneous items that are not allowed on Entrana, but you probably wouldn’t have them in your inventory anyway.

Enlightened Journey has no combat or prolonged periods of running, so you have no reason to bring anything outside the required quest items.

Before you take the boat to Entrana, be sure you have the first batch of necessary supplies. Your inventory should look like this:

sack of potatoes
ball of wool

Got it? Head for Entrana. Doing so will knock an easy task off your Falador Achievement Diary , so there’s an added bonus.

After getting to Entrana, head to the northwest part of the island past the Herblore shop. Auguste will be hanging around out back.

Before you can even tell him your name, Auguste will ask if you want to be his accomplice, erm assistant. He will excitedly tell you that he’s going to be Gielinor’s first balloonist. That’s right; Gielinor has dragons, gods, and respawning chickens, but not balloons until you speak with this old monk.

Auguste will lament that he’s tired of being a monk and wishes to leave Entrana. He’d like to go out and explore new frontiers. Well, actually, he just wants to go to Taverley. I guess he wants to trade in his monk robes for druid robes.

Auguste can’t simply take a boat to Taverley because he gets seasick. That made him come up with the idea of traveling via a balloon, but he is in need of an assistant to help him finalize his designs. Well, since we’re here. Agree to help him in his quest to become Gielinor’s first balloonist.

Auguste will show you his plans to create a hot air balloon. He wants to do a few test runs to be sure it will work and asks you to get supplies for two balloons.

If you brought along the items I mentioned above, speak with Auguste again, and he will teach you how to make an origami balloon. Use one of your papyrus with your ball of wool. Use that on the unlit candle to create an origami balloon.

Talk to Auguste, and a short cutscene will show your character releasing the balloon. It works! It looks like Auguste isn’t crazy after all.

The balloon did catch fire, but maybe you can just use an anti-fire potion to shake it off. After the cutscene ends, speak with Auguste again, and he will take your sack of potatoes and the other two papyrus. Another cutscene will play, and you will successfully release another balloon.

I guess farmers don't like balloons. Just being insurance.

Unfortunately for you, some farmers on Entrana like performing Randy Orton impressions. They will come out of nowhere like an RKO and burn down your balloon because they don’t like fun.

Talk to Auguste one last time to wrap up the first act of Enlightened Journey. Despite the setbacks, Auguste seems content with the results and is ready to move on to the real balloon.

He will ask you for another batch of items, so you need to go back to the mainland. You should already have some ready in your inventory. Here’s what else you’ll need:

10 normal logs

You can fill your sacks with sand right on Entrana. Just don't let Gaara catch you.

You can fill up your empty sacks with sand at the sand pit a short walk away from Auguste. The main concern is the willow branches.

You can buy willow branches on the Grand Exchange or get them yourself from any willow trees you’ve planted. If you’re an Iron Man, the latter is your only option.

Don’t worry if you’re an Iron Man and don’t have any spare willow seeds at the moment. Auguste will give you a willow sapling and a basket of apples as payment for a farmer to watch your tree. Willow trees take four hours to grow and an additional hour to get 12 willow branches, so maybe do this in advance.

It's time to begin the Enlightened Journey!

Once you have everything you need, head back to Entrana and speak with Auguste. Use your willow branches on the platform to start setting things up. A cutscene will ensue, and you’ll see Auguste’s hot air balloon in all its glory. Speak to him again to load your normal logs into the balloon as fuel.

You’re ready to go! Time to get his show on the road. You’re driving. Flying. Oh, did Auguste not mention this part? He’s enlightened on how to make balloons, not flying. Here’s hoping you’re a fast learner.

The only part remaining in the quest is getting to Taverley. To do that, you need to navigate through three journey minigames. You cannot hit so much as a cloud, or you will crash the balloon and have to start over.

You have five movement options during these journeys:

Drop sandbag (Takes you up 2 spaces)
Use log (Takes you up 1 space)
Relax (Moves your right 1 space)
Rope (Moves you down 1 space)
Red rope (Moves you down 2 spaces)

The bail option will cancel the flight. You cannot hit so much as a cloud, or you will crash the balloon and have to start over. You can only use the drop sandbag and use log options so many times before you run out of moves, so be careful.

There are multiple ways of completing these journeys, but these are the paths that I’ve been using for years.

Be careful not to hit anything during your journey.

Relax 9 times
Rope 3 times
Relax 6 times

Relax 3 times
Relax 7 times

Relax 4 times

You have completed the Enlightened Journey!

After finishing Journey 3, you will touch down in Taverley near the tree patch. Speak with Auguste one last time, who thanks you for all your help. You’re officially a balloonist now! Just don’t be an airhead about it.

The Enlightened Journey is complete!

Completing Enlightened Journey gives you access to another transportation system.

Completing the Enlightened Journey will reward you with 1 Quest Point, 4,000 Firemaking EXP, 3,000 Farming EXP, 2,000 Crafting EXP, and 1,500 Woodcutting EXP. Those are alright rewards if you do this as soon as you hit the skill requirements.

Auguste will also give you a real snazzy bomber jacket and cap so you can look the part of a balloonist. If you’ve picked up a set of Gnome goggles on the Grand Exchange or from the Gnome Restaurant minigame, pay Auguste a visit.

He can combine your cap and goggles into a cap and goggles. You also gain the ability to make origami balloons anytime you want.

The true prize of completing the Enlightened Journey is that you now have access to the balloon transport system.

You can never have enough transportation options in OSRS, and given the low requirements, gaining access to the balloon transport system asap is a good idea.

The balloon transport system can take you to five locations across Gielinor:

Castle Wars
Crafting Guild

Iron Man players benefit greatly from the balloon transport system. If you haven’t started the Grand Tree quest yet and don’t have access to spirit trees, this is the best alternative.

If your POH is still in Rimmington, the Crafting Guild option comes in handy. Taverley gives you quick transport to Taverley and Falador, which is a short walk away. The Castle Wars option is good for getting to Yanille and Castle Wars.

The Varrock option is nice, but since The Chronicle teleports you to the Champions’ Guild, you don’t need another Varrock option much.

These benefits come with a caveat, however.

You start out with the ability to travel to and from Entrana and Taverley. To unlock the rest of the journeys, you must complete additional minigames identical to the ones in the Enlightened Journey.

You need to start in Entrana and complete every other journey before you gain full access to the balloon transport system. Each journey also requires specific logs.

The Crafting Guild needs oaks, Varrock willows, Castle Wars yews, and the Grand Tree magics. The first trip requires 10 logs and every trip after that requires 1. Take some time to fill up the log storage bins near any of the balloon sites. That way, you don’t have to worry about it.

If you’re an Iron Man, you’ll need to spend a fair bit of time Woodcutting to get the most out of this. You’ll also need to invest in Firemaking as each journey has a Firemaking level requirement; 30 for the Crafting Guild, 40 for Varrock, 50 for Castle Wars, and 60 for the Grand Tree.

The balloon transport system also has a weight limit of 40 KG, so keep that in mind.

Answer : You can craft origami balloons to get 35 EXP per balloon. If you’re efficient, you can get 75-80K Crafting EXP per hour using this method. However, this isn’t worth the effort as there are much better Crafting training methods.

Answer : Yes. You need to complete Enlightened Journey if you want to start Monkey Madness II. It’s also needed for Varrock and Ardougne achievement diary tasks.

Answer : No. It’s purely fashionscape. But it’s darn good fashionscape, I must say

The Enlightened Journey is a quest that I put off doing for years. After checking out the quest requirements, I’m sure you’re scratching your head and asking why.

Let’s just say that many folks in the Runescape community have a tendency to exaggerate how annoying or long quests in Runescape can be. I’m totally not including myself in that bunch.

But I rectified that mistake, and completing Enlightened Journey is now a quest that I do sooner rather than later. If only to get my level 3 skiller account his go-to bomber outfit. It’s the closest I can get to cosplaying Pete Maverick Mitchell in OSRS.

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